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PREPORTER: YESTERDAY'S MISTRIAL
PMEANS PROSECUTORS COULD CHOOSE
PTO CHARGE THESE OFFICERS AGAIN
PAND RETRY THE CASE.
PDOING THAT COULD COST TAXPAYERS
PMORE THAN $80,00
PTHAT'S HOW MUCH THE BERNALILLO
PCOUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S
POFFICE SAYS IT SPENT TO
PPROSECUTE KEITH SANDY AND
PDOMINIQUE PEREZ ON SECOND DEGREE
PMURDER.
PTHE JURY DELIBERATED FOR TWO
PFULL DAYS BEFORE DEADLOCKING AT
P3 GUILTY, 9 NOT GUILTY.
PIN THE END THE JUDGE DECLARED A
PMISTRIAL.
PTHE JURY'S FOREMAN --
P>> -- THERE'S SO MUCH --
PREPORTER: -- SAYS THEY WERE
PSPLIT FROM THE BEGINNING, BUT
PHOPES THIS GOES TO TRIAL AGAIN.
P>> I THINK PERSONALLY THEY
PSHOULD RETRY THE CASE.
PREPORTER: BUT IF THAT HAPPENS WE
PCOULD BE LOOKING AT ANOTHER
P83,000 DOLLAR BILL.
PTHE DEFENSE SAYS IT'D BE A WASTE
POF MONEY.
P>> I HOPE SINCERELY THEY LOOK AT
PTHIS CASE, THEY LOOK AT THE
PFINANCIAL RESOURCES THAT WERE
PSPENT, AND THEY LOOK AT THE WEAK
PJURY SUPPORT THAT THE STATE HAD
PFOR THIS CASE AND LET THESE TWO
PGOOD MEN GET ON WITH THEIR
PLIVES.
PREPORTER: THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
P
P>> WHETHER WE'RE GOING TO GO
PFORWARD AGAIN, THAT'S GOING TO
PBE SOMEBODY ELSE'S DECISION.
PREPORTER: AS THE CURRENT
PDISTRICT ATTORNEY, IT'S KARI
PBRANDENBURG'S CALL WHETHER THIS
PCASE IS RETRIED.
PA SPOKESPERSON SAYS SHE HAS YET
PTO MAKE A DECISION.
PIT COULD ALSO FALL TO THE NEW
PD.A. WHO'LL GET SWORN IN IN
PJANUARY.
PRAUL TORREZ IS RUNNING
PUNOPPOSED.
PAND I DID ASK TORREZ FOR AN
PIN-CAMERA INTERVIEW TODAY, BUT
PHE DECLINED.
PIN A STATEMENT YESTERDAY, HE
PSAID HE'D FIRST HAVE TO DO HIS
POWN REVIEW OF THIS CAS
PBEFORE MAKING ANY DECISIONS.
PIN DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE, MEGAN